Sentences with phrase «hispanic eighth graders»

Arizona also emerged as a leader in closing the achievement gap between white and Hispanic students, with Hispanic eighth graders making an 11 point gain and the gap shrinking significantly by six points.

Proficiency levels of Hispanic eighth graders in Virginia have not changed significantly since 2000.

Twenty - three percent of Hispanic eighth graders in the commonwealth achieved at or above the proficient level, statistically higher than the 17 percent nationwide and the same as Hispanics in the South.

The average score of Hispanic eighth graders in Virginia was 256, which is statistically higher than the national average, but did not represent a significant change from 2007.

Twenty - two percent of Hispanic eighth graders in the commonwealth demonstrated proficiency or better, compared with 16 percent nationwide.

African - American fourth and eighth graders also placed first on the reading exam, as did Hispanic fourth graders; Hispanic eighth graders ranked second.

Among black and Hispanic eighth graders, Texas students started at about the same place as their national peers in 1990.

Not exact matches

And nationwide scores for students classified as Hispanic rose in both grade levels; the score gap between white and Hispanic eighth - graders shrunk by three points between 2009 and 2011.

Black eighth graders gained twenty - three points from 1990 to 2015, Hispanic students gained twenty - four, and white students gained twenty - two.

African - American eighth graders in DoDDS schools scored second in the nation when compared with their peers in non-military schools; Hispanics placed first among Hispanic students nationwide.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

However, since the early 1990s, the Hispanic - White achievement gap for public school students has not narrowed for fourth - or eighth - graders in either reading or mathematics, both nationally and for almost every state.

For non-ELL non-low-income eighth - graders, the increases in reading were 13 points for black students, 17 points for Hispanic, and 4 points for white.

For example during the 16 year period, non-ELL low - income eighth - graders showed these increases in reading: 6 percentage points for black students, 21 points for Hispanic, and 14 points for white.

Forty - five percent of white eighth graders in Virginia earned proficient or advanced reading scores, as did 17 percent of black students, 26 percent of Hispanic students and 49 percent of Asian students.